For anyone who ever tried to query the scheduled tasks on a Windows machine using windows script host (e.g. vbscript) and received unexpected results or missing tasks, that is because there are two ways to work with scheduled tasks. One way uses the NetSchedule API set and the second uses the Task Scheduler COM interface. There is a scriptable interface for the NetSchedule API set, we know it as WMI.

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Most of the scripts I write are intended to be called from the command window using cscript.exe. Something like.....( the nologo argument gets rid of the title block that cscript spits outs everytime it runs )

C:\scripts>cscript /nologo someScript.vbs

Recently I ran into a situation where a script was being called using wscript.exe instead and the script was not acting properly. After a little research, I came up with this solution:

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